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CABLE COASTBR, CARRIER, AND FERRIER. No. 378,154. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

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JACOB VAN ZANDT, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

CABLE COASTER, CARRlER, AND FERRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,15 dated February 21, 1 888.

Application tiled December 12, 1887. Serial No. 2515M. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB VAN ZANDT, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable Coasters, Carriers, and Ferriers, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the inner end of the platforms, 820., at the starting-point; Fig. 8, an elevation of the upright supporting the outer end of the cable. Figs. 4 and 5 are details of the traveler to which the inner end of the cable is connected to raise or lower it; Figs. 6 and 7, details of the Windlass mechanism upon the standard, and Figs. 8 and 9 are details of the carriage and car upon the cable.

Myinvention relates to apparatus adapted to be used for pleasure or business, either for the carriage of passengers or goods, as a cable coaster upon picnic grounds or at pleasure resorts, as a ferrier across ravines or streams, and as a carrier in any place where it is desired to transportgoods or merchandise for short distances; and the object of this inven tion is to create such an apparatus of simple construction and operation.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation, which are hereinafter described, and which are specifically set forth in the several clauses of claim hereto annexed. It is constructed as follows:

A is an upper platform.

B is another platform below A, and both of these are supported in any usual manner, and 1 and 2 are Stairways.

O is an upright standard passing up through the platforms, and its top may he stayed by guys, if desired. In or between the bars of this standard I mount the pulley 3, and adjacent to the bottom I mount the geared windlass 4. I

D is a traveler, consisting of a frame, upon the crossbars of which the flat or grooved wheels 5 6 are placed, the wheels 6 bearing against one vertical edge of the standard and the wheels 5 against the opposite edge, and rails or guides may be placed upon the standard vertically to keep the wheels in place. As shown in Figs. 4 and 5, this traveler is pro vided with the draftbar 7, mounted upon the cross bars of the frame and provided with eyes 8 9, as shown by the dotted lines. Into the eyes 8 I tie the ends of the rope 10, which passes up over the pulley 3, thence down around the drum of the Windlass with several turns, and thence upward to the draft-bar 7, so that when the Windlass is operated the endless rope raises or lowers the traveler upon the standard. In the eye 9 I secure one end of the cable 11,which is carried thence over the pulley 12 in the upright 18, and down to the tighteuer 14. Upon this cableI place the carriage or truck 15, consisting of a frame with journal boxes thereon, and grooved wheels mounted upon axles set in the boxes, the wheels fitting upon the cable.

E is the car dependent from the truck. I also provide a brake, 16, operating upon the top of a wheel or wheels when the rod or cord 17 is pulled down.

The platform A and standard 0 are not connected, in order that the traveler can ascend and descend freely between them, and the platform is also slotted to permit the cable to pass up or down through it with the traveler. In the inward ends of both platforms I widen out the slotways wide enough to receive the car' endwise, and between the platforms and projecting over the edges of the car-slots I erect the guide and friction rollers 18, between which the car enters or leavesa platform, and which steady the car and rotate easily with the friction of the car against them asit moves in or out. I also provide the carriage with one or more idlers, 19, which bear upward against the cable and operate to retain the wheels upon the cable.

It is operated as follows: I load the car from the platform A, the traveler and cable being then in the position shown by the dotted lines, and when released the car starts downward along the then downward grade of the cable until it reaches a point adjacent to the upright 13, when, either by the operation of the bralreorby the reversal of the grade by lowering the traveler and that end of the cable, the car stops and then returns along the cable to the lower platform. Then, by raising the traveler, cable, and car up again, the car is ready to reload and start once more. When used as a carrier or ferrier,a suitable platform should be erected adjacent to the upright,upon which to unload the car.

It will be observed that for whatever purpose used the car is always under the control of the operator at one end of the cable,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination,with the standard 0, of the traveler D, constructed with a frame composed of sides and front and rear cross-bars, the front cross-bar carrying pulleys bearing against the front of the standard, the rear cross-bars carrying pulleys bearing against the rear of the standard, and a draft bar mounted upon a front and a rear cross-bar of the frame, and provided with an eye in the front end to receive the end of the cable, and intermediate eyes, 8, to receive the ends of the adj usting-rope, substantially as described.

2. A traveler consisting of a frame composed of sides and front and rear cross-bars,

pulleys mounted upon said cross-bars, and a draft-bar mounted upon the cross-bars and,

provided with eyes 8 and 9, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the car, of the guide-rolls erected between the platforms and impinging against the sides of the car, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the cable and car dependent from a carriage mounted thereon, of a platform slotted longitudinally to permit the vertical adjustment of the car and cable through the slot, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the cable and car dependent from a carriage mounted thereon, of two platforms vertically above each other and both slotted longitudinally to receive the car, substantially as above described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 6th day of December, 1887.

JACOB VAN ZANDT.

In presence of- O. ToMLINsoN, 0. WV. SMITH. 

